Not one word about what his great idea actually is.
Probably some kind of peer-to-peer network where everybody is running their own mini-server, but the bandwidth and latency problems would be exponential.
Sounds like some kind of distributed data crypt.
it`s a bulletin board circa 1990
It's all out there if you cared to look.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS pretty much invented the web. He put up the first site and page on 8/6/1991. It is still there (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html).
In those early days, sites that ran web servers allowed users to put up their own information, files, programs, etc. to share. Users controlled their information. Before the web, there were gopher, ftp, and nfs (file shares spanning the network) services.
The first thing I put up onto the web was an audio file of me pronouncing my last name. That was in 1994 or so.
It seems like Berners-Lee is looking to go back to that model.
Haven't read the article (who has the time?) but it would be better to put everyone in the cloud. I can run a crapload of services and store a ton of data for $5 / month and could probably host 100 more people in my virtual server. The bottom line is people's data is already in the cloud, just cloud that they don't control. We need an architecture where everybody controls their part of the cloud just as they control their desktop OS (well as long as they use Linux or other OS that users can control).